Visitors to GroundsFest 2026 will have the opportunity to be among the first in the UK to see the new Turf-Tidy 5000, as Redexim showcases its latest innovations on stand OSA230.Making its UK debut following its launch earlier this year, the…
ICL will return to GroundsFest 2026, providing practical advice and proven solutions for grounds managers, landscapers, contractors and turf professionals responsible for maintaining high-quality sports surfaces and amenity landscapes.Visitors to…
One of the biggest crowd-pullers at GroundsFest is back for 2026, and it's set to be louder, bigger and more action-packed than ever before. Machinery Nation LIVE is back on 16 and 17 September at Stoneleigh Park with an expanded programme of…
"Funny how they criss cross spray the sky's everyday for two weeks then we have a heat wave.
Did you know the flat earth society has supporters all around the globe."
"Maybe you called in when they were closed? There were loads of workers when I was there shifting the aggregates into neat piles. Bet they were being exploited for way less than the minimum wage as they were mostly young and weren't interested in…"
"some didnt really recover after last year !!
Same, it's not just dormant this year, i think it's actually dying now, dusty patches are far worse than last year!"
"My client has even switched off the robots... absolutely no growth, just brown expanses of dead grass..... some didnt really recover after last year !!"
"I haven't cut any lawns since 6 July here in Chester. I'm keeping busy, for now, cutting hedges etc but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for rain soon as grass cutting is usually half my income for 9 months of the year. "
"yes very true Tim, when I went, to my surprise i noticed virtually unlimited quantities of sharp sand, ballast and gravel spread out for miles, some was even piled up with bits of vegetation growing out of it and nobody seemed to work in this…"
"Interesting reading the previous post named, tips to keep busy in winter, there is a post from Harry in 2015 saying,
The weather and climate is worsening, we are getting wetter summers now than we did 20 years ago, I have a number of clients that…"
"Where I am it's rained once in the last two months and the grass stopped growing a while back and is brown and crispy. At the moment almost nothing is growing. Cotswold soil is a thin layer of clay over limestone rubble and is challenging at the…"